Private Finished Thief!

Sofia was impressed? That was the best damn response Riley had heard in her life. She also appreciated the change of topic. "It's, ah, normal elementary school stuff, mostly," Riley said. "Fractions and stuff in maths. In history we're learning about the Founders of the Manta Carlos. They were pirates and they didn't have a government telling them what to do. Old Manta Carlos sounds like it would have been a cool place to live."

Old Manta Carlos didn't have scouts either, or a school. It would have been way better. You didn't need to know maths to blow up navy ships and take their stuff. She wished that she could be a pirate. She would have become the God-Queen of the high seas when she grew up.

Riley worked much more slowly on her own sandwich. She was kind of amazed at how fast Sofia was eating, and how much. "That's a lot of sandwiches," she said with awe. "Do you have to eat that much 'cause you're a werewolf? I know a kid who can eat a whole cow for lunch 'cause he's a dragon." It didn't really make much sense as she thought about it more, though. Werewolves don't eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, do they? They probably eat meat and people and stuff.

She didn't understand why an adult would take classes if they didn't have to. She hated taking classes and she only did it because they were forcing her.

Riley guessed that was right. If they weren't going to let her destroy how society worked, she would need to go to school to get a job and stuff when she grew up. It would be such a disappointing life to lead, though. Her father used to make her think that she could just be a God for a living, after the revolutions happened. That would have been cool. But now it was starting to look like the great destiny she was supposed to have would never happen, and she would just get a job like everyone else and never change anything or be important.

She ate more of her sandwich and tried not to let those thoughts consume her. They were talking about weird diets. She knew someone with a weird diet. "My best friend here is a lust demon who's a giant spider from the butt down. She eats human flesh sometimes, and that used to really freak me out, but they can just clone body parts here for her to eat so it's ok."

"I didn't either. I only knew humans before I came here. But she's not really a giant, she's just a little taller than me, and her human parts are normal sized. But her spider part is SUPER big for a spider! And she can walk up walls and stuff. It's really cool."

Riley finished up her sandwich as she spoke, sometimes talking with her mouth full. When she was done, she had an idea.

"Uh, can I use the bathroom?"

This was a scout's house. She had an opportunity for revenge.

When Riley had shut the bathroom door behind her, the first thing that came to mind was toilet paper. You could make a real mess with toilet paper. She started tearing up the roll of toilet paper, leaving pieces of it everywhere. Next, she was going to try something she saw happen in a hallway once: if you got a wad of toilet paper really wet in the sink, then tossed it at the ceiling, it would stick. She laughed to herself, imagining that scout having to clean up all the...

Riley stopped, soggy paper in her hands, shredded TP at her feet, staring at the ceiling. She remembered Sofia saying that she was "keeping house" for this jerkwad, right? So that meant... Sofia would be picking all of this up. And Sofia was cool. Riley didn't want to do this to Sofia, she wanted to do this to that jerk she was living with!

In her frustration, she made a sound almost like a growl. Then she started picking up after herself. By the time she left that bathroom, there was a bunch of shredded toilet paper in the trash can, and none of it on the floor. She hadn't flushed or washed her hands - there was no point. She came back out by the kitchen and sulked.